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If you open-source under the GNU General Public License (GPL) then competitors would be prohibited from re-using your code without applying the same license to
by asymptotic 16y ago
If you open-source under the GNU General Public License (GPL) then competitors would be prohibited from re-using your code without applying the same license to their codebase.
Would looking at your code be sufficient to put you at a disadvantage or would preventing competitors from re-using your code be a sufficient defence?
edit: Sorry, it's actually the GNU General Public License (GPL).
- metachris 16y agoGood point. Bear in mind that as long as all contributions come from you, you can both release a GPL branch and have another proprietary branch with custom code you don't want to make public. This does create a problem though: if you are accepting outside contributions to the GPL version, you can't incorporate these into the proprietary version without having the contributors sign an agreement which allows you to do so.